I had an fun little idea i wanted to do, make a short 3-4 min video for my club to show what a competition was like for next year when new members join to get them interested. Then I got an idea what if I vlog the competition so new people to vex can get an idea what a competition is like, it would of helped me a lot in my first year in robotics.
So what I want to know is, is it a good idea?, should i have it in one or two parts or have sections of each part of the competition? (opening, inspect, pits, matches, judges, more matches ect.) what things should I make sure I do?.
I would like the forums take on this. and also I could use some tip for the judges mainly for the excellence award.
When we recruit for robotics club one of the things we do is play one of our matches from the previous year to help them get a feel for how it works. I do though really like the idea of having a sample competition available to watch.
The first thing that came to my mind when I read your post was the first year my school had ordered VEX parts as part of our PLTW Curriculum and making the decision to do competitions. I would have been great then to have seen the workings of a complete competition. Granted, if you really search YouTube you can piece together how it works but a singular video would save a lot of valuable time. Not to mention the nervousness that could be reduced knowing what you are getting into.
If you would like to see the sort of thing we do for our school website and our presentations to our school board you can see it here. All we do is simply add a score board to the top and talk while we are presenting, I don’t see what would be so hard about simply giving the spiel to a microphone instead of a group of engineering students or board of education.
Now, as far as judges go, they are there to help and from my experience at competitions would be more than willing to answer a question or two about what they find important in teams/robots. This information could be helpful to even some of the most experienced teams.
